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Die neun Leben des Tomas Katz

Originaltitel: The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
  • 2000
  • 12
  • 1 Std. 27 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,8/10
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IHRE BEWERTUNG
Die neun Leben des Tomas Katz (2000)
SatireSchwarze KomödieDramaFantasieKomödieMystery

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA man comes to London, uses a strange force to take over different men's identities, and creates chaos.A man comes to London, uses a strange force to take over different men's identities, and creates chaos.A man comes to London, uses a strange force to take over different men's identities, and creates chaos.

  • Regie
    • Ben Hopkins
  • Drehbuch
    • Thomas Browne
    • Rob Cheek
    • Ben Hopkins
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Tom Fisher
    • Ian McNeice
    • Tony Maudsley
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    6,8/10
    1240
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Ben Hopkins
    • Drehbuch
      • Thomas Browne
      • Rob Cheek
      • Ben Hopkins
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Tom Fisher
      • Ian McNeice
      • Tony Maudsley
    • 16Benutzerrezensionen
    • 14Kritische Rezensionen
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
    • Auszeichnungen
      • 3 Gewinne & 2 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    Tom Fisher
    Tom Fisher
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    Ian McNeice
    Ian McNeice
    • The Inspector
    Tony Maudsley
    Tony Maudsley
    • Taxi driver
    Will Keen
    Will Keen
    • Cuthbert
    Andrew Melville
    • Minister of fish
    Matthew Causton
    • Gallows Nelson
    Toby Jones
    Toby Jones
    • Civil servant
    Asif Kapadia
    Asif Kapadia
    • Gwupigrubynudny-landians
    Kris Krishnamma
    • Gwupigrubynudny-landians
    Jamille Jinnah
    • Gwupigrubynudny-landians
    Sophie Bevan
    • Journalist
    Kiki Kendrick
    Kiki Kendrick
    • Eileen
    Trevor Thomas
    • Schlauch
    Amelia Curtis
    Amelia Curtis
    • Yvonne
    Tilly Blackwood
    Tilly Blackwood
    • Underworld secretary
    David de Keyser
    David de Keyser
    • Exhumed rabbi
    John Ramm
    • Ivul Gurk
    Janet Henfrey
    Janet Henfrey
    • Janice Waily
    • Regie
      • Ben Hopkins
    • Drehbuch
      • Thomas Browne
      • Rob Cheek
      • Ben Hopkins
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    critiquer

    Big cabbage of a movie

    As the movie started, I have expected somehow good picture, an intriguing mix of art and expressionism. And I've got all of that, but in the very bad way. The movie starts very promising (accelerated crowd in London with techno soundtrack + first blust of Tomas) but that's where ends everything nice and reign of absurd starts. And it made me starting to hate the movie, and left me confused and angry. I'm not a huge fan of art movies but I could watch anything while it has a logical story to follow. And, the most important, while it is tasteful. This movie isn't! It has a short story of the end of the world with many unconnected and unnecessary scenes which spoil the whole movie. I am a huge fan of Monty Pyton. It isn't very logical but it is very tasteful. This movie is mainly a BAD TASTE.
    9richard_sleboe

    A day of darkness

    In the Revelation of St. Peter, it is said that a false Messiah will come, and that Henoch and Elijah will appear to expose the impostor. "The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz" draws heavily on such doomsday stories, canonical as well as apocryphal. A solar eclipse is imminent, the astral child is dying, judgment is coming, and, perhaps worst of all, London's tube stations are disappearing. Enter Thomas Katz, a shape-shifting space alien coughed up by a manhole off the M25 motorway. Under the watchful eyes of London's inscrutable chief of police, Katz takes over a string of high-profile identities to set in motion a vicious plan. But where does it lead? Will it, like the M25, eventually circle back on itself? Only Katz himself knows. Or does he? After all, we don't really know who he even is. Extremely inspired nonsense, miraculously produced by veteran German soap opera writer Hans W. Geissendörfer. Did this ever play in theaters? Too bad if it didn't.
    10sashamalchik

    A great mind-trip

    This movie defies description, categorization, genre placement. There is simply almost nothing like it - a clever mind trip that relentlessly weaves the plot in a neck-breaking-paced surreal, absurdest, postmodern apocalyptic story with a great soundtrack, trippiest image sequences, great sense of humor, and deep paranoia and darkness. Despite using seemingly gimmicky effects and tricks, very low budget and mostly black-and-white shooting, this movie feels so well done and so well narrated, they don't hinder it at all as they would many other movies - instead, as if on the height of its "genre", this movie absolutely flourishes with them, as the very best silent movies do on their own unhindered by the absence of sound. A must see, but also definitely a "not-for-everyone-er".
    6LunarPoise

    even the bollards

    Ben Hopkins in The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz presents a Kafkaesque take on London on the verge of apocalypse. Ian McNeice is a million miles from Bert in Doc Martin, reveling in the role of the blind police inspector trying, through psychic means, to make sense of it all. His enjoyment of the role is infectious. There are some genuinely funny set-ups here, carried off by a cast not afraid to go for high camp. The comedy works most of the time, but when deeper meanings are the target the film is a little hit-and-miss. Shot ultra-low budget, it looks like a very slick student movie, but has enough laughs and surprises to overcome its aesthetic limitations. The films big achievement is to present London in a fresh, and vaguely frightening, way. More of interest to aspiring lo-budget filmmakers than a general audience.
    8The Truth

    I'm impressed.

    During my cinematic explorations I've seen a lot of of far out movies, but The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz has got to be one of the strangest. It's a paranoid yet hilarious film, mixing post-modern end-of-the-world visions with biblical ones. It's one heck of a ride, and though the budget has obviously been quite small, the creators of the film have not let the finances bind their imagination.

    In The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz the fair city of London stands on a brink; a solar eclipse is going to darken the skies, and madness begins to emerge. Arcanely dressed Thomas Katz rises from the sewer, and it soon becomes obvious that he is the harbinger (or even the cause) of the chaos to come. The only hope lies in a blind police commander, who is deeply connected with the spirit world. Can he save the white astral child who represents life before Thomas Katz goes through his weird series of metamorphosis, thus sealing the fate of London. And what is Dave going to do about it? What, don't you know who Dave is? Well, he knows who you are, and after you've seen the film you understand why.

    When I saw the film the director, Ben Hopkins, was there to present it; he told that much of the dialogue was done by improvisation, and many of the scenes were invented right before they were shot. It's not hard to believe those claims. The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz is not thematical whole; instead it is a series of funny, eerie and surreal scenes portraying the chaos that inhabits our world. While some of these scenes may not work, most of them are, in all their absurdness, scaringly accurate. This clarity of vision covers for the lack of coherence, and makes The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz a worthwhile watch. In it's depiction of irrationality and chaos the film owes much to Luis Buñuel (a debt it openly admits), and it could be even said that this is Buñuel for the post-modern age. Still, the film is highly original in it's own right, and such comparisons should not be taken as claims of plagiarism. Ben Hopkins is not the new Buñuel, but The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz is a film Buñuel would've been proud of.

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      'Gwupigrubynudny' means in polish 'stupid-fat-boring'.
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      [After establishing that the children in general are at fault for the state of the nation]

      Ivul Gurk: Well, well, we could, ah, talk forever - is there a solution?

      Tomas Katz: Yes! I have it here. It's a tuning fork. I acquired it through the Sunday Times recent innovation feature.

      Ivul Gurk: Tuning Fork of Annihilation: Broadcast a melodious hum of this durable stainless steel tuning fork across the airwaves and cause the destruction of all domestic televisions and the death of all children who hear it. Wow, what will they think of, next?

    • Crazy Credits
      After the names of the production companies in the opening titles, the words comprising the sentence "A Film Found Beneath A Stone" flash sequentially onto the screen.
    • Verbindungen
      Referenced in Lindenstraße: Fremdes Terrain (2000)
    • Soundtracks
      Die Wallfahrt Nach Kevlaar
      Musical Text from by Heinrich Heine

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 11. Januar 2001 (Deutschland)
    • Herkunftsländer
      • Vereinigtes Königreich
      • Deutschland
    • Offizieller Standort
      • ED Distribution (France)
    • Sprachen
      • Englisch
      • Französisch
      • Latein
      • Hebräisch
      • Polnisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
    • Drehorte
      • Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, Muswell Hill, London, England, Vereinigtes Königreich
    • Produktionsfirmen
      • G2 Films
      • Geißendörfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion (GFF)
      • Strawberry Vale Films
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      • 1 Std. 27 Min.(87 min)
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